Strategy excellence

This programme seeks to work through the key areas in formulating and executing a creative strategy. It will include an analysis of the business environment, an approach to developing a sustainable competitive advantage that will assist companies overall overall positioning and a review of the key leavers of execution.

At the end of the programme, you will be able to:
• Understand the broad context in which the organisation does
and will do business
• Recognise the key driving forces shaping the competitive
environment
• Identify and leverage sources of competitive advantage
• Shape a leadership agenda for a general management team

Nick Binedell is the dean of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) which opened its doors in January 2000.

GIBS has established itself as a significant business school in South Africa with a strong focus on partnering with leading South African corporates and providing a high level of local and international business education.

GIBS offers an extensive MBA programme (both full time and part time) and a wide range of executive and customised corporate programmes. It has been ranked by the London Financial Times in the Top 50 providers of global executive education for the past seven years.

Nick's academic qualifications include a PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle, an MBA from the University of Cape Town. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

His area of expertise is in the field of business strategy formulation and his academic and consulting work, although dominantly in South Africa, includes work in the United States, Europe and Australia.

To register, join our website www.gibs.co.za, and apply online under Short Courses.

Date: 14 May 2014
Time: 08:00 - 17:00
Venue: Protea Hotel, Gateway, Durban
Cost: R3 500 per person